Traditionally when you wanted to map a file into memory on Unix this was done using mmap and on Windows with CreateFileMapping. Continuing the tradition of simple, consistent API's, in 4.4 QFile will have two new functions: map() and unmap() that provide the ability to map files into memory.

An quick example:


QFile file("foo");
file.open(QFile::ReadOnly);
uchar *memory = file.map(0, file.size());
if (memory) {
// have some fun with the data
file.unmap();
}


You can check out more in the
map and unmap documentation.